Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr Robert Puff. I don't know about you, but I love traveling.

Whether it's a local day trip, a weekend getaway, or a long vacation. Traveling is a lot of fun because

we get to see new things all around us that we haven't seen before. Or similarly, when the holidays come, our birthdays arrive, we get

new toys, we get new clothes, and it's so exciting. Or when we get a new restaurant and go over to someone's house and have a home-cooked meal cooked for us,

it can be really interesting and exciting to explore these new things,

or we may do some repair to our home and make it look prettier. Or we may be out

and about in life and meet a new friend and all the excitement that comes with this newness.

Or we may be single and meet a new partner and all the

wonders and joys that come from a new love.

All this newness is truly wonderful, but there is a caveat here.

There's something we need to be aware of that can cause us suffering and not let us be

happy. What is that? There really are two problems that come with this. The first one is, as we

can imagine, is a constant questing, a seeking for new things. We just keep doing more and more, having more experiences, and

until we have new ones, we're just not satisfied. We're never satisfied because once we have

one experience, we want another, then another,

then another.

It's much like an addiction if you think about it.

I mean, I don't know if you've ever met a heroin addict, but I have.

And they'll tell me how when they have that first high,

it's such an incredible experience

that they'll do anything to get it again.

It's called chasing the high.

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